ISOTC 211

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ISO/TC 211
International Organization for Standardization Tec
hnical Committee 211

• Geographic information/Geomatics

Status per December 1999
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What is ISO/TC 211?

• Standardization in the field of digital
  geographic information.
• This work aims to establish a structured set of
  standards for information concerning objects or
  phenomena that are directly or indirectly
  associated with a location relative to the Earth.
• These standards may specify, for geographic
  information, methods, tools and services for data
  management (including definition and
  description), acquiring, processing, analyzing,
  accessing, presenting and transferring such data
  in digital/electronic form between different
  users, systems and locations.
• This work shall link to appropriate standards for
  information technology and data where possible,
  and provide a framework for the development of
  sector-specific applications using geographic
  data.

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Some objectives ...

• increase the understanding and usage of
  geographic information
• increase the availability, access, integration,
  and sharing of geographic information
• promote the efficient, effective, and economic
  use of digital geographic information and
  associated hardware and software systems
• contribute to a unified approach to addressing
  global ecological and humanitarian problems

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ISO/TC 211 organization
Adv.G-Strat
MHT
SWG-QC
WIBob MaherCanada
WG 2Ken BullockAustralia
WG 3Acting Rob WalkerUK
WG 4Morten BorrebækNorway
WG 5Doug OBrienCanada
WG 1Chris DabrowskiUSA
Framework and reference model
Geospatial services
Profiles and functional standards
Qualifi-cations and certification of personnel
Geospatial models and operators
Geospatial data admini-stration
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ISO/TC 211 Chairman and secretariat
ISO/TC 211 Geographic information/ Geomatics
ISO/TC 211 will develop a family of standards
ISO 19100 series
Chairman Olaf Østensen, Norwegian Mapping
Authority Secretary Bjørnhild Sæterøy,
Norwegian Technology Standards Institution
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WG 1 - Framework and reference model

• ISO 19101 - Reference model
• ISO 19102 - Overview
• ISO 19103 - Conceptual schema language
• ISO 19104 - Terminology
• ISO 19105 - Conformance and testing
• ISO/TR 19121 Imagery and gridded data
• ISO 19124 - Imagery and gridded data components

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WG 2 - Geospatial models and operators

• ISO 19107 - Spatial schema
• ISO 19108 - Temporal schema
• ISO 19109 - Rules for application schema
• ISO 19123 - Schema for coverage geometry and
  functions

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WG 3 - Geospatial data administration

• ISO 19110 - Feature cataloguing methodology
• ISO 19111 - Spatial referencing by coordinates
• ISO 19112 - Spatial referencing by geographic
  identifiers
• ISO 19113 - Quality principles
• ISO 19114 - Quality evaluation procedures
• ISO 19115 - Metadata

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WG 4 - Geospatial services

• ISO 19116 - Positioning services
• ISO 19117 - Portrayal
• ISO 19118 - Encoding
• ISO 19119 - Services
• ISO 19125 - Simple feature access - SQL option

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WG 5 - Profiles and functional standards
WG 5 Doug OBrien Idon Corp.Canada

• ISO 19106 - Profiles
• ISO/TR 19120 - Functional standards

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ISO 19122
Bob Maher Canada

• ISO/TR 19122 - Qualifications and certification
  of personnel

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Special groups

• SWG-QC - Special Working Group on Quality Control
• overall harmonization and quality control
  guidelines, dependency matrix
• MHT - Model Harmonization Team
• harmonization of UML models
• Advisory Group for the creation of strategic
  direction statement
• assisting the secretariat and chairman in
  developing the business plan

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Who are we ? ...member listActive members
(P-members), 33 countries
Australia Austria Belgium Canada China Czech
Rep. Denmark Finland France Germany Hungary
Isl. Rep. of Iran Italy Jamaica Japan Republic of
Korea Malaysia Morocco Netherlands New
Zealand Norway Portugal
Russian Federation Saudi Arabia South
Africa Spain Sweden Switzerland Tanzania Thailand
United Kingdom United States of America Yugoslavia
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Member listObserving members (12 O-members), 4
corresponding members
Bahrain (corr.) Brunei Darussalam
(corr.) Colombia Cuba Estonia (corr.) Hong Kong
(corr.)
Iceland India Mauritius Oman Pakistan
Poland Slovakia Slovenia Turkey Ukraine
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External liaisons

• IHB, International Hydrographic Bureau
• Digital Geographic Information Working Group
• ICA, International Cartographic Association
• UN Economic Commission for Europe, Statistical
  Division
• FIG, International Federation of Surveyors
• EPSG, European Petroleum Survey Group
• IAG, International Association of Geodesy
• ISPRS, International Society for Photogrammetry
  and Remote Sensing
• OGC, Open GIS Consortium, Incorporated
• The Permanent Committee on GIS Infrastructure for
  Asia and the Pacific
• CEO, European Commission, Joint Research Centre,
  Centre for Earth Observation
• ISCGM, International Steering Committee for
  Global Mapping
• CEOS, Committee on Earth Observation Satellites

and CEN/TC 287 Geographic information
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Internal liaisons

• ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 Coded character sets
• ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 24 Computer graphics and image
  processing
• ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32 Data Management and
  Interchange
• ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 35 User interfaces
• ISO/TC 20 /SC 13 Space data and information
  transfer systems
• ISO/TC 23/SC 19 Agricultural electronics
• ISO/TC 46/WG 2 - Coding of country names and
  related entities
• ISO/TC 82 - Mining
• ISO/TC 184/SC 4 Industrial data and global
  manufacturing languages
• ISO/TC 204 Transport Information and Control
  Systems

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ISO/TC 211 statistics

• More than 500 persons involved since start
• WG 1 - 77 persons
• WG 2 - 52 persons
• WG 3 - 88 persons
• WG 4 - 58 persons
• WG 5 - 49 persons
• Qualifications and certification - 12 persons

NB! Figures are approximate and vary over time
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Agreement ISO/TC 211 - OGC
Why cooperation ?

• common objectives
• similar work programmes
• complementary approach
• joining resources gives strength
• avoiding inconsistent standards - de jure / de
  facto / industrial
• and more

has led to establishment of a cooperative
agreement between Open GIS Consortium and ISO/TC
211, others may follow
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ISO/TC 211 timetable
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19101 - Reference model .. 19102 -
Overview ... 19103 - Conceptual
schema language . 19104 - Terminology
.. 19105 - Conformance and
testing .. 19106 - Profiles
.. 19107 - Spatial schema . 19108 -
Temporal schema ... 19109 - Rules for
application schema ... 19110 - Feature
cataloguing methodology 19111 - Spatial
referencing by coordinates 19112 - Spatial
referencing by geographic identifiers 19113 -
Quality principles .. 19114 - Quality
evaluation procedures ... 19115 -
Metadata ... 19116 - Positioning
services . 19117 - Portrayal
... 19118 - Encoding ... 19119 -
Services 19123 - Coverage
geometry and functions ... 19124 - Imagery
and gridded data components (Stage 0) 19125 -
Simple feature access - SQL option .
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Scale from start of ISO/TC 211, November 1994
pre WD 1.CD 2.CD DIS
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Project leaders, i)

• Reference model
• Overview
• Conceptual schemalanguage
• Terminology
• Conformance and testing
• Profiles
• Spatial schema
• Temporal schema
• Rules for applicationschema
• Feature cataloguingmethodology

Norman Andersen, Lockheed Martin, USA Chris
Gower, Babtie Group, UK Arne-Jørgen Berre,
SINTEF, Norway Martin Ford, UK Hiroshi Imai,
Univ. of Tokyo, Japan Douglas O'Brien, IDON
Corp., Canada David Parker, Univ. of Newcastle,
UK Charles Roswell, NIMA, USA Steinar Høseggen,
Norway Robert Rugg, Virginia Com. Univ., USA
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Project leaders, ii)

• Spatial referencing bycoordinates
• Spatial referencing bygeographic identifiers
• Quality principles
• Quality evaluationprocedures
• Metadata
• Positioning services
• Portrayal
• Encoding
• Services

Hermann Seeger, IfAG, Germany Robert Walker,
UK Joel Morrison, USA Ryosuke Shibasaki, Univ.
of Tokyo, Japan David Danko, NIMA, USA Thad
Mauney, USA Ronald Toppe, TV2, Norway David
Skogan, SINTEF, Norway Arne-Jørgen Berre, SINTEF,
Norway
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Project leaders, iii)

• Coverage geometry and functions
• Simple feature access - SQL option
• REPORTS
• Functional standards
• Imagery and gridded data
• Qualifications and Certificationof personnel

Charles Roswell, NIMA, USA John Rowley, GEOBASE
Consultants Ltd., UK Debra LaMarque, Cranfield
Univ., UK Kian Fadaie, Canada Centre for Remote
Sensing, Canada Robert Maher, Canada
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Meeting schedule
Meeting 1st plenary 2nd plenary 3rd
plenary 4th plenary 5th plenary 6th
plenary 7th plenary 8th plenary 9th
plenary 10th plenary 11th plenary 12 th plenary
Place Oslo, Norway Reston, VA, USA Seoul, Rep. of
Korea Sydney, Australia Oxford, UK Victoria,
Canada Beijing, China Vienna, Austria Kyoto,
Japan Cape Town, South-Africa USA (venue to be
confirmed) Portugal (to be confirmed)
Date November 10-11, 1994 August 30-31, 1995 May
30-31, 1996 January 23-24, 1997 October 2-3,
1997 March 5-6, 1998 September 24-25, 1998 March
4-5, 1999 September 29-30, 1999 March 9-10,
2000 September 7-8, 2000 March/April, 2001 (to be
confirmed)
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ISO/TC 211 on Internet - the WWW server
You will find updated information on ISO/TC 211
on the following World Wide Web-server
WWW
http//www.statkart.no/isotc211/
containing
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Conclusion

• The goal of ISO/TC 211 is to develop a family of
  international standards that will
• support the understanding and usage of geographic
  information
• increase the availability, access, integration,
  and sharing of geographic information, enable
  inter-operability of geospatially enabled
  computer systems
• and ease the establishment of geospatial
  infrastructures on local, regional and global
  level.
• and cooperate with others in achieving this !

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Thank you !
ISO/TC 211 ... building the foundation of the
geospatial infrastructure, brick by brick ...